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    AZ Alkmaar (redirect from FC Zaanstreek)
    Alkmaar Zaanstreek (Dutch: [ˈɑl(ə)kmaːr ˈzaːnstreːk]), better known internationally as AZ Alkmaar, or simply and most commonly as AZ (pronounced [aːˈzɛt])...
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    AZ is a Dutch association football team, based in Wijdewormer in the Zaanstreek. It is the reserve team of AZ, based in Alkmaar, and plays in the Eerste...
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    Zaan (redirect from Zaanstreek)
    region through which the river runs is called the Zaan district (Dutch: Zaanstreek [ˈzaːnstreːk]). It comprises the municipalities of Zaanstad, Oostzaan...
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    (formerly called Saenredam) and the surrounding Zaan River region (the Zaanstreek) is intimately tied to industry. In the Dutch Golden Age, Zaandam served...
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    From 1961 to 1974, old buildings from all over the region known as the Zaanstreek were relocated using lowboy trailers to the Zaanse Schans. Two of the...
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    small spheres) as well as Leerdammer and Beemster, while the adjacent Zaanstreek in North Holland has since the 16th century been known for its mayonnaise...
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    Wieringermeer (North Holland) Wijdewormer (De Wormer, North Holland) Zaanstreek ("The Zaan Area") (North Holland) About one in six Dutch people live in...
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    collection of the Zaans Museum currently comprises five exhibitions: ‘De Zaanstreek maakt het’ (The Zaan region really makes it), ‘Typisch Zaans’ (Typical...
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    Wieringermeer (North Holland) Wijdewormer (De Wormer) (North Holland) Zaanstreek (North Holland) Zeelandic Flanders (Zeeland) Zevenwouden (Friesland) Zoom...
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    Volendam and Marken and the area around there, West Friesland and the Zaanstreek; and in a southeastern fringe bordering the provinces of North Brabant...
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    footballer who played as a striker for Heerenveen, Stormvogels, Ajax, Zaanstreek and the Pittsburgh Phantoms during his career. Groot began his career...
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  • Consolation is the name of a former Dutch death metal/grindcore band from the Zaanstreek that formed in 1989. They released three full-length albums through Displeased...
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  • Munich, Germany Assignment Zero, a crowdsourced journalism project Alkmaar Zaanstreek, formerly AZ '67, a Dutch Eredivisie football club AZ (women), the affiliated...
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  • Utrecht in 1970. GVAV became FC Groningen in 1971. Alkmaar 54 and FC Zaanstreek merged to form AZ in 1967. Roda Sport and Rapid JC merged to form Roda...
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    Netherlands, which was originally built in the seventeenth century at Zaanstreek, North Holland. In 1828 it was moved to IJlst, where it worked using wind...
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    the city Alkmaar is home to the professional football team AZ (Alkmaar Zaanstreek). In 2006, the club moved to a new 17,000 capacity stadium, the DSB Stadion...
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    Ajax and moved in 1964 to the senior team. In 1964 he was bought by FC Zaanstreek for f1000. In 1967 the team defunct and merged into AZ Alkmaar where he...
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    (Dutch pronunciation: [oːstˈsaːn] ) is a municipality and a town in the Zaanstreek, Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The municipality had a...
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    warehouse in Zaandam. Soon after, Albert Heijn, which also originated in the Zaanstreek, showed interest in a takeover and in 1973 Simon de Wit merged with Albert...
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    agglomeration (Agglomeratie Haarlem) Bloemendaal, Haarlem, Heemstede, Zandvoort Zaanstreek Wormerland, Zaanstad Greater Amsterdam (Groot-Amsterdam) Aalsmeer, Amstelveen...
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  • playing their 42nd season of competitive football (Alkmaar '54 and FC Zaanstreek had merged to form AZ in May 1967). The club won its first Eredivisie...
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    is still an important part of the local West Frisian dialect group. In Zaanstreek (central North Holland), a traditional region, the old Hollandic dialect...
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    Zeeuwse bolus are good examples. A moist doughy white bread from the Zaanstreek in North Holland is duivekater, of which the recipe goes back hundreds...
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  • probably matronymic ("child of Aafje") and may have originated in the Zaanstreek. Aafjes may refer to: Bertus Aafjes (1914–1993), Dutch poet Gerard Aafjes...
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  • (water vole), a character in the novel The Wind in the Willows De Walrot, Zaanstreek, a windmill moved to IJlst, Friesland in 1828 Monto Water Rats, a music...
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    Vrouwen is a women's association football club based in Alkmaar and the Zaanstreek, Netherlands. They are affiliated with the AZ men's team. They were founder...
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    Alkmaar and surroundings NL328 IJmond NL323 Haarlem agglomeration NL324 Zaanstreek NL325 Greater Amsterdam NL329 Het Gooi and Vechtstreek NL327 South Holland...
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    Gerrit Kist when Kist had worked for the tsar in Moscow. Upon visiting the Zaanstreek, Peter insisted on staying with Kist in his home, despite Kist's protests...
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  • De Typhoon: Dagblad voor de Zaanstreek was a Dutch regional newspaper published in Zaandam. It was founded in 1944 (during World War II) as an anti-German...
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  • formed in 1967 with the merger of two other clubs, Alkmaar '54 and FC Zaanstreek 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, a 1991 compilation album by Green Day...
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